Bootvis - Installation

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Overview

BootVis is a program, originallaly written by Microsoft but no
longer available as a direct download from their site. It captures all
the applications loaded during the boot process and records
this to a file for later analysis.

Installation of BootVis

Bootvis can be downloaded from here. It is an msi file and can
be installed by double clicking.on the downloaded file.

Installation Step

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This is the first screen
displayed. Click Next to contine.

Accept the standard EULA by clicking Next

Click Next to
continue

Installation continues ...

... and completes. Click Close to finish.

Start BootVis using the Start menu - this is the first
screen shown.

Select the boot option from the menu as shown on the
screen shot. The option show will show both the boot and driver startup
delays.

This screen allows the boot options to be customised. I
have not explored it in any detail but it seems to allow a number of
reboots to gic=ve several samples. For now we will accept the defaults

Bootvis will need to reboot the computer so that the
process can be monitored. Reboot will happen automatically. it can be
accelarated by clicking the button.

This creenshot shows the result when Bootvis is used to
display the file. You may need to search for the the file
TRACE_BOOT....

Analysis of the resulting file is currently outside the scope of this page!